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The term peace, here has both negative and positive meanings. In its negative sense, peace is an absence not only of war and conflict, but also of structural violence such as social injustice, social inequality, the violation of human rights, the destination of ecological balance, etc. In its positive sense, peace means the presence of unity, harmony, freedom and justice. Thus the concert of peace encompasses within itself the absence of conflict as well as the presence of harmony. Viewed in this way, the five themes of our group discussions in the Buddhist summit fall within the scope of peace; they are (1) Buddhist unity,(2) Buddhism and world peace, (3) Buddhist education,(4) Buddhist propagation, and(5) Buddhism and social welfare.